Ahh, now I remember.
It looks like the FW is encrypted or uses custom squashfs
@slh they seriously had the balls to answer like this when requesting the GPL dump
Thank you for contacting Dynalink Customer Support.
Dear Robert,
Regarding your inquiry:
I'm afraid we cannot offer this sort of thing.
We appreciate the opportunity to assist you. If you have any further questions, please reply to this email directly without changing the Subject of this email.
Warm Wishes,
Christian
Your Dynalink Customer Support Team
I had a stern reply that its I wasnt really giving them a choice.
If that fails, Il reach out to Askey instead
And they decided to ignore it:
Thank you for contacting Dynalink Customer Support.
Dear Robert,
Regarding your inquiry:
We will not be fulfilling this request.
Interestingly, there is the PSU schematic on the internet
Ouch, that is an interesting strategy from them...
Anyway, contacted Askey so we will see.
I doubt they don't know what they are required by GPL.
My board should arrive tomorrow, so we will see what can be done.
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@Gost6 UART is on the J1004 connector?
If so, then I need to figure something out to actually use it.
Thanks, I gotta dig out a connector like this or try using logic analyzer probes.
Nowhere to get it locally or without 20EUR of shipping cost.
These kind of connectors are commonly used on corded mouses, if you have one that you no longer use, it can be removed, they usually have 6 pins but the extra pin can easily be cut off.
Hm, I used to have one for spare parts.
Will have a look
Finally got around to soldering the UART adaptor, so they are being d*cks and have disabled UART in the stock FW completely.
Ok, managed to pull the DTS using OpenWrt initramfs:
It looks like there are 3 different revision of the Askey board, Dynalink one is: Askey RT5010W-D350/REV0
BTW, stock FW is just the traditional QSDK SquashFS inside of UBI and that's it, its not encrypted or anything so it can easily be unpacked.
They are changing various PHY registers as well as PHY LED config using shell scripts, looks to be built on SFP11.2 QSDK release so semi recent.
rt5010w-rev2 | rt5010w-rev3 | rt5010w-d347-rev0 | rt5010w-d350-rev0 | rt5011w-rev0)
## PURDA-672
## QCA8075 setting
## Askey, Harry Chen, 2020/02/25 , modify LED behavior for QCA8075 (LAN)
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x0 0xd 0x7
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x0 0xe 0x8076
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x0 0xd 0x4007
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x0 0xe 0x0640
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x1 0xd 0x7
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x1 0xe 0x8076
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x1 0xd 0x4007
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x1 0xe 0x0640
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x2 0xd 0x7
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x2 0xe 0x8076
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x2 0xd 0x4007
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x2 0xe 0x0640
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x3 0xd 0x7
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x3 0xe 0x8076
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x3 0xd 0x4007
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x3 0xe 0x0640
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x4 0xd 0x7
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x4 0xe 0x8076
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x4 0xd 0x4007
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x4 0xe 0x0640
## QCA8081 setting
## Askey, Harry Chen, 2020/02/25, modify LED behavior for QCA-8081 (WAN)
ssdk_sh debug phy set 0x1c 0x40078078 0x8600
;;
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Came across this thread while looking for some info on other askey routers. If the stock fw allows it, can you send a backup of the config? If it's anything like RT4230W I might be able to enable telnet or ssh by modifying it. No guarantees tho.
If you have some spare time, can you try this as bootcmd on the Dynalink?
"setenv bootargs console=ttyMSM0,115200n8 ubi.mtd=rootfs root=mtd:rootfs rootfstype=squashfs rootwait; ubi part fs; ubi read 43ffd000 kernel; bootm 43ffd000"
This works on a netgear IPQ6018 secure boot enabled device (playing with an image build from the TIP repo, 5.4 kernel)
This avoids the bootipq image signing check etc.
BTW will get a Dynalink myself soon.
Sure, I can try tomorrow as its time to get it completed due to its price
The config backup does not seem to be a ZIP anymore.
Nah, that wont work without setting the NAND ID, and partition table manually first.
Can you send a copy anyways? Askey likes to use their own special methods of compressing the config file
Sure, here it is:
I'll take a look at it a bit later
Ahh, mtdids and mtdparts is already set on my device.
this should work on the Dynalink:
mtdids=nand0=nand0
mtdparts=mtdparts=nand0:0x6100000@0x7a00000(fs),